Personal ramblings of Elizabeth Andrews Fae artist and author of 'Faeries and Folklore of the British Isles,' 'Faerie Flora'and the 'The Lavender Witch' all available from
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Thursday, 12 September 2013

Raise your cups...

Harvests are nearly all done and the merriment begins...

'I've bin to Plymouth and I've bin to Dover

I've bin a-rambling over, boys, all the world over

Over and over and over and over

Drink up yur liquor and turn yur cup over

over and over and over and over

The liquor's drunk'd up and the cup is turned over.'

This was popular song for the harvest festivities in the south of England.

During the song a cup of beer is placed on the flat crown of a hat. Holding it by

the brim with both hands, the player has to raise the cup to his mouth and drink

all the beer before the fourth line of the song. Then he has to flick up the cup and

catch it in the hat. If he fails or spills any beer he has to try again.

I suspect that there would have been a lot of spilled beer by the end of the evening!

We didn't drink beer at the end of our harvest, we had scrumpy, which is a very

rough cider, and believe me it was very rough! I remember my dad sat on a bale

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Hi I am a artist and author Elizabeth Andrews, and I love all things Faerie. My work can be found at www.magic-myth-legend.co.uk where if you wish you can purchase cards and prints of all things magical from Faerie to Mermaids and even Dragons!
This interest has become an obsession over the last ten year resulting in a fully illustrated book detailing Faerie and Folklore around the British Isles. I hope that if you, like me, are a 'Faerie nut' that you will enjoy this blog as I comment on any faerie activity around the British Isles. However I do find myself adding more and more quirky items on folkLore so I apologise but I find them so fascinating and funny!!